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A Self-Operating Time Crystal Model of the Human Brain: Can We Replace Entire Brain Hardware with a 3D Fractal Architecture of Clocks Alone?

Authors :
Pushpendra Singh
Komal Saxena
Anup Singhania
Pathik Sahoo
Subrata Ghosh
Rutuja Chhajed
Kanad Ray
Daisuke Fujita
Anirban Bandyopadhyay
Source :
Information, Vol 11, Iss 5, p 238 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2020.

Abstract

Time crystal was conceived in the 1970s as an autonomous engine made of only clocks to explain the life-like features of a virus. Later, time crystal was extended to living cells like neurons. The brain controls most biological clocks that regenerate the living cells continuously. Most cognitive tasks and learning in the brain run by periodic clock-like oscillations. Can we integrate all cognitive tasks in terms of running clocks of the hardware? Since the existing concept of time crystal has only one clock with a singularity point, we generalize the basic idea of time crystal so that we could bond many clocks in a 3D architecture. Harvesting inside phase singularity is the key. Since clocks reset continuously in the brain–body system, during reset, other clocks take over. So, we insert clock architecture inside singularity resembling brain components bottom-up and top-down. Instead of one clock, the time crystal turns to a composite, so it is poly-time crystal. We used century-old research on brain rhythms to compile the first hardware-free pure clock reconstruction of the human brain. Similar to the global effort on connectome, a spatial reconstruction of the brain, we advocate a global effort for more intricate mapping of all brain clocks, to fill missing links with respect to the brain’s temporal map. Once made, reverse engineering the brain would remain a mere engineering challenge.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20782489
Volume :
11
Issue :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Information
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.f1278d75e6d41c6978bbffd93d08135
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/info11050238